Show TEACH PRACTICAL patia community development when boiled down will be found to mean unselfish good citizenship it will be be found to mean just the things that the great kansas editor meant when he wrote the following paragraphs if we e who live in these small towns in america can not see that our duty to our country lies first of all in our duty to our neighbors then we are blind indeed to the basis of real patriotism tor for after all patriotism la Is only neighborly kindness patriotism is not in cheering tor for the lag flag it is not in feeling our eyes tilled filled with emotional tears at hearing the star spangled danner banner patriotism Is just old fashioned human duty to sacrifice our neighbor the man who helps the town with its ita taxes with its public business with its myriad activities tor for neighborly righteousness to sacrifice that man and his business for the mere sake of saving a dollar on the purchase ot of a hundred dollars worth of 0 goods is just as unpatriotic as it is to spit on the flag for the flag it it in means eans anything means the golden rule the flag means friendly burden hearing bearing it means mutual help in trouble it means standing together against common toes foes the motto of the mall mail order house is every man tor for himself and the devil devit take the blud elmost and you bet the devil will that spirit never falls fails to work and the weak man the unprotected man the man alone the man on the farm at the end of the tact fact when his farm market Is gone when the spirit of selfishness and greed has left thlu country cold and hard and mean and the farmer will be the hindermost william allen alien white |